Brian Moore is often discussed as one of the last modern practitioners of fiction in the realist mode, and indeed realist is an apt description of most of his novels. In a handful of his works, however, he abandons the strictly mimetic in favor of the fa...

THE COLOR OF BLOOD. By Brian Moore. E.P. Dutton. 182 pp. $16.95. Asequence in a recent Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary on Brian Moore shows him sitting in the back seat of a car which is moving through a slum section of...

OT gives neuroscientists a new and faster view of the brain, ana an alternative to fMRI | By Laura Spinney Anyone who has been subject to a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan knows its limitations: the claustrophobiainducing tunnel, the machine gun rattle, the...

One ceramic bowl contained miniature soldiers in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, angels' wings sprouting from their backs. Flowers and butterflies, rather than bullets, barreled from their rifles.Two other bowls sat side by side, symbolizing a two-state solution to the deadly upheaval. Yet another bowl, painted with...

When Miramax Books sent out their spring/summer 2005 catalog, the cover art for The Twins of Tribeca, the roman à clef by Rachel Pine based on her time working at Miramax Films, depicted a cowering publicist hiding her face behind a clipboard on an unfurling...